Notorious Gunman Shot by Police sh hal, Feb. 6 "Little Gold-Digger" Sino-king-sze is dead as a result of wounds he sustained when he made a desperate attempt fo evade a police search party Which boarded. the trolleybus on which the alleged criminal and a few of his associates were travelling south fon Rue clu Marche at about 650 am. Yesterday. Four other persons, one of them a Concession C.P.C., were wounded in the affray which was over in a matter of seconds.
'A French police raiding party consisting of one French sergeant and four OPES had just boarded trolley bus No, B36S with a view to searching the vehicle for suspicious characters, when they saw two of the passengers climb on the seats and jump through the window, pulling oni Mauser type pistols with which they fired at their pursuers.
The policemen were first on the triggers, however, and Sino, who had only recently been released from the Ward Road Gud, dropped dead after having run a few yards. His armed accomplice managed to get away and the chase taken up for him by the policemen was. unsuccessful, as he Managed 10 make good his getaway in one of the many alleyways on Rue Conti.
Others wounded in the shooting. were! CP.C. 95, who sustained an injury in the right leg: the motor man of the vehicle wounded in the {ett 1eg; and two Chinese women who were also wounded in the legs.
Siao wag well-known to the police, having previously served three terms of imprisonment at Ward Road on various charges. He was understood to have been released from the Gaol only a few days ago, etter having finished a nine-year Sentence.
On his body, a name-card found, according to which he! wa body-quard to Mr. Fu Siao-en. Mayor of the "Greater Shanghai Municipality." Whether he was actually employed there of only used these cards to him In his various ties, could not be: learned.
French police officers questioned yesterday afternoon, were of the opinion that besides the two armed men, there were probably four or five accomplices on the same trolley-bus who managed to. disappear as they did not attract attention,—pre= sumably having been unarmed,
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